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Here are some short videos and pics of our trip last night to fly the "Spirit Of Kauai" home to Indianapolis last night. This was flight 9401, the first flight in the new livery for our new operation in Hawaii. After taking a 6 hour delay while they fixed an FCM module malfunction in the plane that we were flying TO the paint shop, we officially took delivery of the Spirit Of Kauai at 9:55pm eastern time.
There are times when this job can be a little tedious, but there are times like this, when the weather is clear, you are flying with a friend, the plane is empty, and you are once again just a pilot, not a PR person. Enjoy the photos.

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What's all of the plastic sheeting for? Any pics in the air?

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Spinning in the wind while they replaced (2) FCM modules and (2) PSEM modules for the fly-by-wire system before departure to GLH

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The plastic sheeting is to protect all of the composite portions of the plane... wing root fairings, vertical stab, engine nacelles etc... from the hundreds of gallons of paint stripper that were applied.

Uploading a couple more vids now that wouldnt cooperate earlier, they are short, they were done on my digital camera.

Edit: I dont have any pics of the OUTSIDE of the plane in the air, as I was sitting in the right seat at the time. Also, it was dark well before we ever got this thing in the air... there were a multitude of issues that arose while trying to complete the airworthyness release from the paint shop. THe only pics I have are the crummy ones in the dark of the panel and the EFB with the 18L ILS to GLH setup

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Doing flights like these is an adventure to say the least... when you pick up a plane that has been plugged up, taped off, stripped of paint, repainted, re-assembled etc... it takes a great deal of time and effort to inspect the thing to take delivery and accept the aircraft.
Luckily "Dan" the maintenance inspector that we sent there to also look over this thing is very well versed. He has spent most of the year in Brazil inspecting planes that are coming to us from the factory, and will be leaving to do the same for our remaining E175 deliveries in late Nov.
During our pre-flight inspection the FO and I were both pulling wads of paper, plastic, tape, speed tape etc from nooks and crannies on this plane. Oh, not to mention the ONE static wick that cannot be missing, was missing.
As much as I wanted to high tail it home after a 12 hour day, with operations such as this you can only be deliberate in slowing yourself down. I think it took us 25 minutes from APU start until we were rolling out on TXWY B in GLH to come home. The owner of the shop was noticeably "erked" that we were so deliberate, apparently he wanted to go home. Unfortunately when you are responsible (me) for taking a 32 million dollar plane home in pristine condition, it pays to walk slow.

In Flight Video with the ILS 18L at GLH in the EFB.